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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 30.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Appl Stat. 2016 Jul 22;10(2):946–963. doi: 10.1214/16-AOAS920

Table 1.

Type I error rates for standard and robust EB t-tests. Datasets were simulated with different d0 values but with no DE genes and or outliers. The table gives the mean error rate over all genes in 1,000 simulated datasets for various p-value cutoffs.

d0 Method Nominal error rate
0.001 0.01 0.05 0.1
2 Standard 0.000996 0.00998 0.05001 0.09994
Robust 0.000996 0.00998 0.04996 0.09983
4 Standard 0.001008 0.01002 0.05008 0.10012
Robust 0.001013 0.01004 0.05006 0.10005
10 Standard 0.001017 0.01005 0.05018 0.10008
Robust 0.001033 0.01010 0.05021 0.10005
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